Give somebody a blog–it’s the ultimate last-minute gift. You’re giving a gift of respect and encouragement, plus the offer of more of your time to help set things up. One size fits all. No shipping and handling. Your mileage may vary.
Biz Stone has been writing a series of creative help-pieces for new bloggers, and his latest is an excellent tutorial on setting up a “gift” blog.
Biz works for Google/Blogger (say that three times fast!), so his advice assumes you’ll be using their software. But you can use his advice, with minor modifications, to set up a new blog using your own favorite blogware.
I’m not sure I’d go the whole distance Biz suggests of creating a popup card with the Blogger logo–a red ribbon on the keyboard is enough marthastewart for me.
Despite these quibbles, “Biz Stone, Genius” was the obvious right pick for Feedster’s Christmas Eve “Blog of the Day.”
2 responses so far ↓
1 Elayne Riggs // Dec 25, 2003 at 4:12 pm
Happy Christmas, Betsy! I don’t get it – since you can blog for free, what’s the point of a free gift?
2 Betsy Devine // Dec 25, 2003 at 4:27 pm
“Giving” a blog to somebody who’d need no help setting one up probably isn’t that much of a present. It’s a much bigger gift to somebody who needs to be told her ideas are worth sharing with the world, or to somebody who could be baffled by the steps to set up a blog. IMO, a gift of your time, attention, and affection is real gift. That’s why an actual present you shopped for has special mojo a check in an envelope doesn’t.